Butcher&#39;s basket.



L B'. KAUEPMANN.

BUTGHEBJS BASKET. .I APILYI'UATIOHA FILED HAY '1, 1910 atentedl May 3G, i911.

^ relug traine' 12, ,preferably .inte- Wliicli may loe of a dat or u nled on edge ion of' the four side members being 'ifi "25 as shown' 19 in of drawing 'llie ends of the and 'll arc :shown also passing nd then 'folded haelt around the see 18 in Fig. 2) and nesting l over 'oorlion cit the side Les or'tlie si Wall the ends of the strips ound tlm traine l2, but 'asi the bottoni edges of 'the r and are bent an d folded de of .the frame 12, as 2tlg 't @relay greatly strengthening d also closing it up more" reint'oreing,Y ril l5 arranged longrtuw there 't st Ven the strips and tlun atom.

it@ and 'll 'tied together in intersections, l@ and l? downthe ui tier wat Variations v loc 'made Within the 'Y toying claims Without l principles of the invendo claim as invention and deeiio t qdure lr Lett M i. tent,l is:

metallic tray including in combination. fir* vt metal side Walls, a reinforcing thin the bottom edges of said side y strips arra Jed across. @ne bottom of W y one end of said strips passing above norcing trame and between the lootlon oi? said side -Walls and said re- Vln frame and around said frame, said ""9 loottoiu edges' ci? 'the sido Walls 1being 'folded bout the ends of sadrstrps and nie, the portions o the le side Walls between said f *out said rein'i'orcwhere strips voor' metallic tray ineludingin combinaH 'tion-smet Vmetal side Walls, a reinforcing trarne Wiliin the 'bottom edges ot" said side tu f at :separated strips crossing each d ConstitutinggI the bottom@ ol? said strip-s extending from aide to finer of tlie tray and liefen ends tdlded about said reinforcing said Ibottom strips being at strips ll are further shown strips "having tacked lto each j ooaoos other at their points of crossing, the lowerd most strip having a reinforcing' device on tlie ui'iderside tl'ierw A metallic tray including 'tion sheet Inf-etal side Wallsj a. #frame within' the bottom edges or said side Walls, flat separated strigs crossing each in combinaotlier and constituting the bottoni of saidv tray, said strips extending from one side to another side of 'the trayv and having; their ends vofled about said reina relug :traine5 vsaid bottoni strips being attached to each other at tlie'irpoints of crossing, thev lowering: longitudinally tliereo l et A metallic trag7 including in Combination sloeet` metal side Walls? a reinforcing frame Within 'the bottom edges of said side Walls, a lt ttoro consisting of dat strips arranged across .from one side of the' tray to another and crossing eaeli other at right ai and one strip lying upon the other,

said strips leaving their ends folded aboutsaid reinforcing; frame, iontj'itudinal reinorci Y rilo formed in eaoli of the lower- 'most strips and fastening :means for said strips their oirossiiigs.

A metallic tray including in combinali al side Walls, e reinforcing edges o"1i aio 'tom l. l l opposite side of the having a. struck up reinforcing ril;l

l Sli@ t ay and formed longitudinally thereof and extending' dowi'iwardly therefrom, a second Eat bottom strip lyingupon and supported by said iirst strip, and extending from one. side to the other of 'the 'tray and at right angles 'to said :lirst stript A metallic cratehaving side Walls of sheet metal, a reinforcing frame Within the bottom portion of said side walls', a plurality of bottom strips arranged across the tray from vone side to the opposite, said longitudinal reinforoing ridges formed therein and projecting downwardly therefrom, other fiat bottom strips arranged across the tray from one side to the other at right angles to, and resting upon the top or", said inst-described bottom strips9 the ends off the `bottom strips passing above said reinforcing frame and on between :aid trarne and the adjacen'tside Well and around said iframe, the -laottoni edges'o the side Wallsbeing folded about looth the ends or tlie'bottom strips and said reinforcing frame. v

2. A metallic crate having side Walls of sheet metal, a 'reinforcing fra-Ine Within the bottom portion of said side Walls, a plurality' of fiat bottom strips arranged'across the 'tray from oucsidc to the oppos1te,said 'strips having longitudinal relnforcmg ridges rv having a downwardly projectingv forcing rib lorined therein and .extend los 

